Hey folks,
A new proposal has been posted: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_motivational_arc_of_massive_virt...
They are using surveys to study the changing motivations of Wikipedians over their wiki-career. They are hoping to send out 3,600 recruitment messages to user talk pages since they need 60x3=180 responses and expect a 5-10% response rate. I'm currently trying to talk them down to a more reasonable number.
I'm also working on them to produce something convincing us of the value of their work since there have been ~eleventy billion surveys of Wikipedians about their motivations.
Most importantly, they want us to sign off on their proposal before they acquire approval from their own IRB. I think this makes sense, but I wanted to run it past you guys.
Thanks, -Aaron
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.comwrote:
I'm also working on them to produce something convincing us of the value of their work since there have been ~eleventy billion surveys of Wikipedians about their motivations.
+1 to this. There have been tons of surveys that include motivational questions, and you can probably compare people with different experience levels using that data as well.
3K+ is a lot of messages – Aaron, I really appreciate the effort of asking whoever runs a new survey involving large-scale recruitment to situate their work with respect to the existing literature or state of the art.
On a related note, Aaron and I participated in the review of this other proposal on dispute resolution. I closed the review today and gave Steven (the author of the proposal) the green light to launch a first batch of recruitment messages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Dispute_Resolution
Dario
On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote: I'm also working on them to produce something convincing us of the value of their work since there have been ~eleventy billion surveys of Wikipedians about their motivations.
+1 to this. There have been tons of surveys that include motivational questions, and you can probably compare people with different experience levels using that data as well.
-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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